Canada finally announced their 2014 roster for the Sochi Olympics, and without a doubt the biggest surprise is Claude Giroux not making the team.

There are eleven returning players on the 25-man roster, but in my eyes Rick Nash continues to be the most overrated player in the NHL. Nash has had one 70-point season, and since the 2010 Olympics he has scored 185 points in 228 games, 25th most amongst Canadian-born players. In that same time span Marty St.Louis has scored the most points, 271, while Giroux is third with 255.

Nash has only two goals in 16 NHL playoff games, but Hockey Canada seems to put more onus on the fact he has played well at the water-downed World Championships.

Nash did play okay at the last Olympics, but how much of that was because he was on Toews line, and Toews was the best player in the tournament.

Nash has 18 points in 27 games this year. No one can say he is playing well, or close to the level of Claude Giroux, but Hockey Canada choose him because he's played for them before. I guess Giroux should not play crappier in the NHL so his team could miss the playoffs and he can pad his stats at the World Championships.

Here is the roster, returning players have **.

Goalies:

Roberto Luongo**

Carey Price

Mike Smith

Defence:

Jay Bouwmeester

Drew Doughty**

Dan Hamuis

Duncan Keith**

Alex Pietrangelo

PK Subban

Marc-Edouard Vlasic

Shea Weber**

Forwards:

Jamie Benn

Patrice Bergeron**

Jeff Carter

Sidney Crosby**

Matt Duchene

Ryan Getzlaf**

Chris Kunitz

Patrick Marleau**

Rick Nash**

Corey Perry**

Patrick Sharp

Steven Stamkos

John Tavares

Jonathan Toews**

I still believe Canada is the favourite, because of the blueline and their top-six forwards; Crosby, Tavares, Stamkos, Getzlaf, Perry and Toews.

It will be an awesome tournament and I can't wait to watch, but picking Nash over Giroux makes little sense. Essentially they are basing it on seven good games that happened four years ago. Horrible decision.

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Patrick Marleau, Rick Nash and Jeff Carter are the surprises to me. Looks like they went for a size/speed combination for the last few spots as Carter and Nash at 6'4 are just bigger than Richards, Giroux and St. Louis.

I do like taking team mates instead of just an All Star Team hope we do better this time on international ice than we did in Turin.

Honestly, I think Hall should've made the team. I think he's better than Marleau, and Kunitz is only there because Crosby is. He might not be a defensive stalwart, but he's Olympic calibre.

Are you trolling?

Seriously, Marleau plays the toughest competition out of anyone on Canada and I bet out of almost anyone in the NHL. He also has one of the lower OZONE starts even lower than Bergeron against tougher competition than Bergeron and he scores more points than Bergeron. That's a huge tell of what Marleau brings to this team. He deserves to be there probably more than a lot of the selections (Cough Nash Cough). To have an inexperienced, reckless player like Hall on that team no thanks.

You write that as if Hockey Canada owes the Canucks something, which they clearly don't. Burrows would never make that team, don't fool yourself. I actually like the Hamhuis pick as he's a great skater and has some (albeit minimal) experience playing with Weber.